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War of the Austrian Succession. Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. Seven Years' War. Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway (1721 – 9 July 1795) was a British general and statesman. A brother of the 1st Marquess of Hertford, and cousin of Horace Walpole, he began his military career in the War of the Austrian Succession.
- 1737–1793
- The Viscount Weymouth
23 de feb. de 2024 · Henry Seymour Conway (born 1721—died July 9, 1795, Park Place, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Eng.) was a military commander and prominent British politician who urged moderate treatment of the American colonies.
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Born: 1721. Field-Marshal. Died: 12th October 1795 at Park Place, Remenham, Berkshire. Field-Marshal Henry Seymour Conway was second son of Francis Seymour, first Lord Conway, by his third wife, Charlotte the daughter of Sir John Shorter, Lord Mayor of London, and sister of Catherine, wife of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Oxford.
Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway was a British general and statesman. A brother of the 1st Marquess of Hertford, and cousin of Horace Walpole, he began his military career in the War of the Austrian Succession and eventually rose to the rank of Field Marshal in 1793, at which time he held the office of Governor of Jersey.
Conway, Henry Seymour (1719–95), soldier and politician, second son of Francis Seymour Conway (Baron Conway and Killultagh, Co. Antrim) and Charlotte Conway (née Shorter), was baptised 12 August 1719 at Ragley, Warwickshire, and educated at Eton. He began military life as lieutenant in the 5th Dragoons (1737), ending as field marshal and C ...
In 1772, when General Henry Seymour Conway was appointed Governor and Captain of the Isle of Jersey, he was 51. His career had been the dual one of soldier and politician and he had held a number of senior government posts, often combining them with his commitments as a serving officer in the Army.
Henry Seymour Conway, 1721–95, English soldier and politician; nephew of Robert Walpole. Early in his life he entered upon concurrent and distinguished military and parliamentary careers. He fell into disfavor with George III for defending John Wilkes and was dismissed (1764) from his commands.
